January 23, 2025

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French villagers mobilise to save their castle from Ukrainian owner who ‘pretends to be dead’

Euronews.

By Jez Fielderwith AFP

Burgundy, the French region famed for its top-end wines, is not short of a Chateau. And some of them are rumoured to have ghosts. But one castle in particular has become embroiled in a very peculiar scenario where the owner seems to be both living and dead at the same time.

Château de la Rochepot, in Burgundy, France, sits a stone’s throw away from the hallowed Chardonnay vines of Puligny-Montrachet. The neo-Gothic 12th-century fortress still perches majestically on a rocky outcrop, but the whole place is now under judicial liquidation.

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